Dehradun, September 26
Recent transfers carried out by the Health Department have left blood banks at
the Gopeshwar and Pauri district hospitals without pathologists. Not only have
the day to day haemaotology testing come to a standstill, but also the targets
set for collection of blood through voluntary donation now seems unachievable.

With great difficulty the State Blood Safety
Council (SBSC) had equipped the two blood banks with necessary equipment and
licences were issued only after adequate staff was deputed there. However, with
the transfer of Dr Aditya Tiwari to Kashipur the Gopeshwar Community Health
Centre Blood Bank is without a pathologist. Similarly, after the transfer of a
pathologist, the blood bank at Pauri too is facing similar problems.

“All hill districts of the state have been given
a target collection of 13 blood units per month through voluntary donations.
The blood banks at the Gopeshwar and Pauri Community Health Centres were
established to meet the demand for blood promptly in these districts and also encourage
voluntary donations which is the safest method to tide over the shortage of
blood,” said Dr Meenakshi Uniyal, Director of the State Blood Safety Council.

This perennial shortage of staff has also come in
the way of making the new blood banks at Baurari, Rudraprayag and Bageshwar
functional. Licences can only be issued to these blood banks after they are
equipped with adequate staff.

Significantly, while the SBSC has been successful
in making the blood storage centres functional at the Vikasnagar, Rishikesh and
Doiwala Community Health Centres (CHCs), its efforts to set up such centres at
the CHCs at Bhawali, Agustmuni, Karnprayag, Joshimath and Kichha have not
materialised due to a shortage of manpower.

“According to the National AIDS Control Organisation
(NACO), in places where blood banks cannot be established blood storage centres
are proposed for undertaking storage, grouping and transfusion of blood. But
these centres too are facing problems due to a shortage of manpower. We were
forced to shut the Narsan (Roorkee) blood storage centre after it could not
attract adequate staff. Similarly, the Rishikesh blood storage centre too is
awaiting the appointment of a laboratory technician to start functioning,” said
Uniyal.

Despite facing problems in running of blood banks
and blood storage centres, the state has achieved the target of 80.19 per cent
of voluntary blood donation.

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